The Target Sound ID app develops phonological awareness, sound order sequencing skills, and auditory attention skills. This app increases the ability to break words down into smaller parts and recognize smaller parts in words. Being able to break words into smaller parts and recognize sounds in words is an important skill that is necessary for early reading and spelling skills. Target sound identification promotes literacy development as well as sound identification during speech production tasks. Memory also plays a small part in this task, as the child must internally hold onto the word in their mind while analyzing the sound in a specific position of the target word. This app was created by Pediatric Speech Language Pathologist Lynn Carahaly, M.A., CCC-SLP.

Category: EducationRequirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. Cost: AU$29.99 (169MB)Please use our App Store button above if you decide to buy this app. It doesn’t cost you any extra but a small portion of the cost goes to support the work we do here at The iMums!

We have one promo code for this app to give away and if you would like to win it, just complete the simple steps listed below. Apart from the mandatory entry, you can complete any or all of the options but be sure to leave a separate comment for each step you completed. Each comment is counted as an entry (subject to verification).

Step 1. In the comments below, explain what the app will be used for and by whom, relative to your circumstances. (Mandatory – 1 Entry)

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• This giveaway will close at 8pm Australian EST on May 17, 2012.
• Winner will be picked randomly and must contact The iMums within 48 hours of the announcement to claim their prize.
• This giveaway is open to everyone, worldwide and an iTunes account is required to claim the prize.
• Please only enter if you intend on using the app or giving it to someone who will use it. Good luck!

The Australian iMum Amanda is a married mother of three young boys from North Queensland and has a background in Business Administration and Information Technology. An Apple enthusiast since 2005, Amanda was donned the nickname ‘The iMum’ due to her growing addiction to their products and her many, many apps. She now owns an iPod Nano, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPad 2, iPad 3, iPad Mini, 27″ iMac, 13″ Macbook Air and two Apple TV’s.

As a speech therapist, I would love to use this apps with some of the kids on my caseload. Working in a high poverty area, many of my students are far behind their peers in reading. This app would give them a fun way to practice some new skills!

Carrie
on May 14, 2012 at 6:45 am

I like speech-ez and have been a subscriber for awhile

Carrie
on May 14, 2012 at 6:44 am

My little guy just started talking this year, he is six, but is already learning phonics. I homeschool and tutor other special needs children.

Done -Step 1. In the comments below, explain what the app will be used for and by whom, relative to your circumstances.
This will be used for my students to help improve their speech, language and literacy skills

I would love to win this for my speechpad. We would use it to practice phonological awareness, sound order sequencing, and auditory attention. My kids really need to work on phoneme segmentation skills! I really could use this in my classroom to help my kids! Thankyou for the chance!

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